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Since the species decouples while relativistic, its comoving particle number is conserved. Once it becomes nonrelativistic, its energy density is ${\rho }_{\nu ,0}\simeq m_{\nu }{n}_{\nu ,0}$. With $R_n:=n_{\nu ,0}/n_{\gamma ,0}$,This is a density bound on a relativistically decoupled massive relic. Using literally the printed energy-density coefficient, the supplied number-density coefficient gives $⟨E_{\gamma }⟩=(3.3/0.12)T_0=27.5T_0$. For $g_{\nu }=2$ and $g_d=100$,The estimate scales as $(2/g_{\nu })(g_d/100)$. At the bound the particles are safely nonrelativistic today, so neglecting their kinetic energy is consistent.

There is a physical normalization defect in the printed coefficient. Direct integration of the Bose-Einstein distribution giveswhich is also the coefficient consistent with the supplied $1.66$ expansion-rate formula. It implies $⟨E_{\gamma }⟩={\pi }^4{T}_0/(30\zeta (3))\simeq 2.70T_0$, rather than $27.5T_0$. With this physically normalized photon gas, the same density bound on a relativistically decoupled massive relic becomes $m_{\nu }\lesssim 3.7\times 10^1\mathrm{eV}$, or about $4\times 10^1\mathrm{eV}$ using the rounded coefficients with $0.33$ in place of $3.3$. The two estimates differ by the printed factor of ten; the entropy-dilution result is unaffected.